List of popes

Quality:

List of popes - list of the heads of the Catholic Church. Article “List of popes” in Simple English Wikipedia has 61.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 14 sections.

This article has the best quality in Kazakh Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 682^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

sim

The 2261^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1381^st most popular in all topics.

The 962^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 527^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2514^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4370^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “List of popes”, its content was written by 56 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2261^st place) and edited by 6507 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (962^nd place).

The article is cited 18567 times in Simple English Wikipedia (15^th place) and cited 46811 times in all languages (3512^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #61 in May 2025
• Global: #4 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #11 in May 2025
• Global: #3 in April 2025

There are 47 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Kazakh (kk) Рим папаларының тізімі		96.129
2	Danish (da) Paverækken		95.4681
3	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách giáo hoàng		88.4421
4	Russian (ru) Список римских пап и антипап		88
5	Indonesian (id) Daftar Paus Gereja Katolik		87.7771
6	Belarusian (be) Спіс Папаў Рымскіх і антыпапаў		87.2
7	Armenian (hy) Հռոմի պապերի ու հակապապերի ցանկ		85.9259
8	Catalan (ca) Llista de papes de Roma		82.6594
9	Romanian (ro) Lista papilor		77.3098
10	English (en) List of popes		76.8362

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of popes		26 878 318
2	German (de) Liste der Päpste		9 485 085
3	French (fr) Liste des papes		8 291 821
4	Italian (it) Lista dei papi		7 883 546
5	Polish (pl) Poczet papieży		6 519 782
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de papas		4 864 460
7	Russian (ru) Список римских пап и антипап		3 890 528
8	Japanese (ja) ローマ教皇の一覧		2 373 035
9	Dutch (nl) Lijst van pausen		2 175 835
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över påvar		962 492

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of popes		90 704
2	German (de) Liste der Päpste		25 146
3	Italian (it) Lista dei papi		22 886
4	French (fr) Liste des papes		19 809
5	Polish (pl) Poczet papieży		17 075
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de papas		16 435
7	Russian (ru) Список римских пап и антипап		11 435
8	Japanese (ja) ローマ教皇の一覧		6 870
9	Dutch (nl) Lijst van pausen		3 780
10	Chinese (zh) 教宗列表		3 545

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of popes		1 414
2	German (de) Liste der Päpste		642
3	French (fr) Liste des papes		580
4	Italian (it) Lista dei papi		508
5	Polish (pl) Poczet papieży		371
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de papas		253
7	Dutch (nl) Lijst van pausen		232
8	Russian (ru) Список римских пап и антипап		199
9	Hebrew (he) רשימת האפיפיורים		165
10	Hungarian (hu) Római pápák listája		149

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of popes		11
2	Italian (it) Lista dei papi		4
3	Hungarian (hu) Római pápák listája		3
4	Arabic (ar) قائمة بابوات الكنيسة الكاثوليكية		2
5	Dutch (nl) Lijst van pausen		2
6	Polish (pl) Poczet papieży		2
7	Portuguese (pt) Lista de papas		2
8	Azerbaijani (az) Papaların siyahısı		1
9	Belarusian (be) Спіс Папаў Рымскіх і антыпапаў		1
10	Catalan (ca) Llista de papes de Roma		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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